Word: weidenfeld
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some staff members gratified long-suppressed desires during the week. Sheila Weidenfeld, the First Lady's press secretary, sat in the President's chair at the Cabinet table, closed her eyes and made a wish, just as she had in 1958 when her father, Ike's Cabinet secretary Maxwell Rabb, was leaving office. Said she: "I was nine years old, and I wished I could come back to the White House, and I did." Sheila and Husband Edward spent a night in the elegant Queen's Bedroom; next morning, a White House operator phoned...
...George Weidenfeld, chairman of Weidenfeld and Nicolson, publishers: a life peerage. A Viennese-born, onetime BBC news commentator, Weidenfeld had earlier been knighted at Wilson's request in 1969, and is the publisher of Wilson's memoirs...
...Rudi Gernreich, the wedge is simply part of the new concept in dressing. Says he: "American women are beginning to be clean again, getting rid of the clutter." Some of the converts to the uncluttered coif: Dancer and Choreographer Twyla Tharp, Actresses Carol Burnett and Mackenzie Phillips, and Sheila Weidenfeld, Betty Ford's press secretary...
...scarcely had food for the children. But now that is all changed." In fact, with her new autobiography, My Life, selling at a brushfire pace in 17 languages, Golda at 77 may soon find herself a millionairess. She has already received a $450,000 advance from her British publishers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and royalties and film rights could more than double that figure. However, the loot is fast becoming an embarrassment to Golda, who has long shunned any trappings of wealth. She has planned a small addition onto her modest 2½-room cottage outside Tel Aviv, says the secretary...